A Basketball Brotherhood Calls Timeout

Alex Woodhouse

As commissioner of one of New York City’s longstanding pickup basketball games, Dan Feigin always knew where he would be every Saturday morning: inside the subterranean gymnasium at Trevor Day School in Manhattan, where he has worked for nearly three decades as a teacher, coach and administrator.

But for the first time since 1992, the game has been shelved indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic. And even as the N.B.A. and other sports leagues begin to outline their plans for comebacks in the age of social distancing, weekend warriors like Feigin are coping with basketball-shaped voids in their lives.

“I wander around the house,” Feigin said in a recent telephone…